Personal Narrative: The First Two Years Of College

It happened all through-out college. I had always heard stories about body-shaming with overweight individuals, but I never thought that it would happen to myself or the millions of other young women on college campuses.

"From distance even bumpy roads look smooth". Every year people like me, right now, dedicate hours and a lot of effort in applying to college. But the thing is that I never understood why so much dedication? I have never taught what I wanted to do with my life after High school. Obviously, I knew people graduated from High school, but I just was focusing on the freedom after it not the part of going back to study. I never felt pressure to give my best for the future.Two years ago I moved to the U.S from Puerto Rico to Boston, Massachusetts. One day after my work I was on the train and it stops in front of one of Boston College and I could hear the student talking about a project, I heard one of them saying "Even though I may not like right now this

My college education has helped prepare me for this position. Through out my education, I had to take a few Middle School Methods classes. During these classes, we were asked to create lesson plans and then teach them to Middle School students. We also learned about the Common Core State Standards for Middle School as well as their developmental processes. A second experience that has prepared me to teach Middle School was my special education student teaching. During this caseload, I had four sixth grade boys that I worked very closely with. I went to their classroom and listened to the lessons that were being taught and then I worked with them in a small group setting to complete the task at hand. By being able to listen to the lessons

The college process is extremely stressful and pressurizing. There barely even was an option to not go to college. Almost all the adults spent our senior year trying to convince the seniors that college is the biggest decision of your life. If you don’t go now, you will become a failure and have no job, and no future. They would then proceed to tell us that we should lean on God’s voice to guide us, but not His actual voice because then that wouldn’t be God. That there is no right way to hear from God, but plenty of wrong ways. This left my senior church group feeling overwhelmed and confused.

My first year of graduate school involved a lot of design courses, focusing predominantly on advanced mathematical design methods, system design/optimization and safety procedures for the same and I genuinely owe a lot to Dr. Schuller for how effortlessly I was able to navigate them. I remember sitting in class and approaching it as more of a review while a lot of students were being introduced to it for the first time. The material Dr. Schuller covered during our senior capstone has comfortably taken me through graduate level coursework, and I am eternally grateful for that.

This quarter will be my first at UCLA, as well as my first at college in general. There are so many things that people have told me I will acquire during this experience, such as independence, social skills, and time management, in addition to the material I will learn in my courses. However, the main goal that I want to pursue this quarter that I believe I will be able to work on during this class is the ability to be confident in what I have to say. I want to be able to project confidence when I speak in situations where that is necessary, such as in class discussions. I think that the open, judgement-free environment of this class will make it easier for me to contribute to discussions confidently.

College is a big step in one's life, you are no longer bound to the regimented days of high school where a simple sound dictates when it's time to leave and arrive in class, when it's time to eat, and when it's time to go home. The high school bell holds a God like control over each student's life while they are in school, disregard the bell and one finds themselves in detention sitting in silence regretting not doing what the bell signaled them to do. College on the other hand is a completely different story, the only bell you have to follow is the one you ring for yourself. Each college student is responsible for getting themselves to class and staying the duration, there's no detention for cutting class. The downside is that you would be

I graduated June 2016 before I graduated I had no idea what college I wanted to go to. I was looking forwarding to go UAlbany University at first, my GPA met the standards of attending the school the only thing that kept me back from attending that school was that the fact I was hidden told my SAT's. My counselor explains to me that my SAT was important for me to have to apply to that school. I missed all the due date to take the test so my only option was to go to a community college I was devastated. My friends were talking about how they will be going to buff, Oswego, Miami, and etc I couldn't really relate.

I was wondering how my SUNY Ulster credits would transfer into my freshman year at Manhattanville.

Knowing myself began the summer before my first official semester of college at the University of California, Berkeley in Summer Bridge, a transitioning program for incoming student athletes and underrepresented students of color. Though I planned get an early start on my lower division math and science classes that summer, Summer Bridge's directors decided different. Rather than Calculus and Chemistry, I was enrolled in College Algebra and African American Studies 39D (AAS 39D), “Black & Female”.

My first year playing football didn’t start until my junior year of high school, with that being said this was not my first year being on the football team., The first year of highschool , Freshmen year,I joined the team for two reasons, the first was to have an outlet for my anger, and the second was because of coach Baca asked me to join (well didn’t really ask me but told me)..) Every day freshmen year Ii was at practice doing my best just to play in a couple of games., Ii knew Ii wasn’t very good, but Ii just wanted to be able to play in a few games. That year Ii didn’t play in a single game. Ssophomore year Ii didn't plan on joining the team again because Ii was still frustrated about not playing in a single game the year before, but

I have recently started my first college class. While, yes, I am only a freshman I have found it to be very helpful and educational. A friend of mine introduced it to me and my school counselor pushed me to do it. The class is called Intro to College and Careers. It’s exactly as it sounds. We’ve been learning about college life, what that entails and how to manage a job and money. But it’s just as fun as it is hard. Although it probably isn’t as hard as I think it is. It’s just different. I’m not that big on writing, which I think comes from my short attention span. I’m able to listen to the professor then all of the sudden am thinking about the birds and their migratory patterns.

My first semester of college, I was determined to go into medical school after my undergraduate year. However, That thought changed after a year of being in college. As a first generation student, I never had a clear explanation on how hard college was going to be and on how difficult it may be to me to decided on a specific major. As I get to learn about the different varieties on majors, It creates a burden due to me being indecisive on my major.

Experiencing a year of college life has led me to many challenges and opportunities. I have been able to attend the most prestigious historically black college in the nation and I have also attended a predominantly white institution. While attending Spelman College I have gained so much knowledge, wisdom, and insight pertaining to my black culture. Due to many issues at home I had to attend an university that was predominantly white, this time period really enabled me to see the major downfall in the educational system. I felt that I was not gaining the same education I had received at Spelman because it didn’t intertwine a curriculum that discussed the issues and also the success of minorities. Being at a black university or college enabled

Even though I’m only in the beginning of my transition phase, I feel as though my transition into college will go smoothly and my action plan will be successful. After complete the transition guide based off of my current situation, my current self, my current supports, my current ability to strategize, and my action plan.